MALIGNANT HISTORY
In 1928, the NY town of Massena was convulsed by phony charges that a 13-year-old girl had been abducted and ritually murdered by local Jews.
ENDURING
The noted memoirist talks about her latest book, in which she deals with the death of her father and the death of her son.
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
The members of the band coined their name as a way of owning and diffusing a racial slur. Then they had to take on the US government.
SECOND ACT
After writing ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Harper Lee searched in vain for a second act, until she stumbled across a series of murders that came to obsess her.
INNOVATOR
History has all but forgotten Hiram C. Whitley, who ran the Secret Service for U.S. Grant, but he infiltrated the Klan and inaugurated the nation’s first anti-terror efforts.
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FLAVORTOWN
Our columnist argues that the celebrity chef’s show ‘Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives’ and the range of restaurants it features is more important than ever.
HORROR STORIES
Alex Kotlowitz talks about his new book, 'American Summer,' that tells the heartbreaking stories behind the grim statistics of Windy City crime.
TOGA TOGA TOGA
College fraternities give men a comfort zone, but the author of a new book on frats says that does not have to mean that the Greek system encourages or condones terrible behavior.
FUTURE PRESENT
The electric car is no longer a fantasy, but perhaps the biggest challenge for Musk was learning how to borrow from the playbook of conventional car companies.
RISING FROM THE ASHES
The Los Angeles Public Library was in bad shape when it burned in 1986. Was it arson or accident? Author Susan Orlean talks about how she became fascinated with the case.
